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Fedora Linux Grappling With New vs. Old Intel Hardware Support For Compute Stack

Fedora is among the Linux distributions that package up the Intel Compute Runtime stack to make it easy to run OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero workloads on Intel graphics hardware via the distribution package manager and without having to jump through any...

2024-12-16 20:45

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Hyprland 0.46 Wayland Compositor Brings Several New Features

Hyprland 0.46 is out today as the newest update to this Wayland compositor that is packing in many new features ahead of the holidays...

2024-12-16 20:22

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Git 2.48-rc0 Released With git-fsck Warning Over "Curiously Formatted" Ref Contents

Git maintainer Junio Hamano today announced Git 2.48-rc0 as the first test release toward the Git 2.48 distributed version control system release...

2024-12-16 14:30

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Jumbo Data Packet Transmission & RACK-TLP Coming To Linux 6.14 Network Stack

Queued up this past week within the Linux kernel's networking subsystem for the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle is transmission handling for jumbo data packets as well as RACK-TLP support for managing packet loss and re-transmission. This is work toward supp...

2024-12-16 13:36

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Beta Performance Looks Great - Initial RHEL 9 vs. RHEL 10 Benchmarks

With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 now in public beta this month, I have begun testing out the RHEL 10 beta on a few systems in the lab. In this first look at RHEL 10 performance is seeing how well the RHEL 10 beta is performing relative to RHEL 9.5 stab...

2024-12-16 10:45

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Linux 6.14 Looks To Support AMD's Zen 5 RMPREAD Instruction & Segmented RMP Mode

For further enhancing the AMD EPYC virtualization experience on Linux, the upcoming Linux 6.14 looks like it will support Zen 5's new RMPREAD instruction and segmented RMP mode as part of Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP)...

2024-12-16 09:03

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Blaize BLZP1600 SoC Support Coming To Linux 6.14 For AI Edge Processing

The upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle is set to introduce support for the Blaize BLZP1600 SoC series that is powering various PCIe add-in-card and M.2 adapters for local AI edge processing...

2024-12-16 08:00

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Linux 6.14 To Introduce New DRM Boot Logger For Kernel Messages

Sent out today was the latest drm-misc-next pull request of various Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) changes queuing up ahead of the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle. Most exciting this week is the DRM boot logger being queued for landing to better present kernel...

2024-12-16 06:34

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Better Linux Support For The Samsung Galaxy Book Laptops With New Driver Coming

For those interested in using Linux on the Samsung Galaxy Book line of laptops that ship with Microsoft Windows out-of-the-box, a new "samsung-galaxybook" driver is being worked on for supporting additional laptop functionality not currently found with...

2024-12-16 06:16

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Last Minute AMD GFX12 Changes For RadeonSI Driver Enable ACO For RDNA4

Ahead of AMD's approaching RDNA4 next-generation graphics card launch, today a set of last minute improvements to the AMD GFX12 graphics IP were merged to Mesa 25.0 for the open-source Linux graphics driver support...

2024-12-16 05:58

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Linux 6.13-rc3 Released With KVM Caching For "Wildly Expensive" Intel CPUID Handling

Linus Torvalds announced the release this evening of the Linux 6.13-rc3 kernel as Linux 6.13 works its way to stable release by late January...

2024-12-15 19:22

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Java Throughput/Latency & Power Efficiency Tuning For AMD EPYC Turin

Last month I looked at the impact of AMD's BIOS tuning guide on AI / machine learning workloads for new 5th Gen EPYC "Turin" processors. In today's article I am looking at the performance and power efficiency impact of AMD EPYC 9005 series processors w...

2024-12-15 10:00

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Linux Fixing A "Hilarious/Revolting Performance Regression" Around Intel KVM Virtualization

It's not too often that "fixes" to the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) are noteworthy but today is an interesting exception with among the KVM fixes sent in today ahead of the Linux 6.13-rc3 tagging is for beginning to deal with a "hilarious/revolti...

2024-12-15 08:55

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Xfce 4.20 Desktop Released With Wayland Improvements & New Features

After roughly two years of development the Xfce 4.20 lightweight desktop has been released ahead of the year end holidays...

2024-12-15 06:34

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Btrfs Working On RAID1 Round-Robin Read Balancing

It's been a while since there has been anything new to report on the Btrfs file-system's built-in RAID functionality but that is changing with RAID1 round-robin read balancing...

2024-12-15 06:20

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Linux 6.14 To Add Sensor Monitoring For A ~$180 ASRock AM5 Motherboard

In addition to Linux 6.14 set to add sensor monitoring support for the ASUS TUF GAMING X670E PLUS, another lower-cost AMD AM5 motherboard is also set to see sensor monitoring support with this next version of the Linux kernel...

2024-12-15 06:06

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Linux 6.6.66 LTS Kernel Released With New Hardware Support & Many Fixes

Linux 6.6.66 was released today alongside other updated Long Term Support (LTS) kernel versions...

2024-12-14 17:15

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Some Qualcomm CPUs Left Exposed To Spectre Vulnerabilities On Mainline Linux

Some Qualcomm processors/SoCs on the mainline Linux kernel are left vulnerable to Spectre security issues since Qualcomm hasn't upstreamed patches for properly treating affected CPU cores to their relevant mitigations. But a new patch series from a Goo...

2024-12-14 15:09

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Intel P-State Energy Aware Scheduling Patches Updated For Lunar Lake

As covered last month on Phoronix, Intel has been experimenting with Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) for the Intel P-State driver with a goal of enhancing the power efficiency of Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" processors. Recently a second iteration of that wor...

2024-12-14 09:27

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Mesa 25.0 Introduces Standard Library For Driver OpenCL C

An interesting addition to Mesa 25.0 this week is Alyssa Rosenzweig adding a standard library for the driver OpenCL C code, including the initial abbility to support assert() on device and other standard C constructs for the OpenCL C code...

2024-12-14 08:50

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